re:hormones and asian women

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Hi all! I found this statement when I was searching internet on menopause. Do

Asian women get cp? Also can someone remind me about the stats..are mens cp

related to alcohol more than women and women cp mostly idiopathic?? Thanks a

ton!

Why is it that Asian women supposedly don't get hot flashes?

The reason why older generations of Asian women haven't suffered from hot

flashes is probably not because they eat soy foods daily, but because they have

had minimal exposure to estrogenic products and foods that are treated with

herbicides, pesticides, hormones, and antibiotics. These drug and chemical

culprits are believed to act as " estrogen receptors " in the human body. The

current overload of environmentally-based estrogens is an insidious detriment to

the health of Americans.

For the past 40 to 50 years, the chemical compounds in the categories listed

above have been used so heavily in the U.S. to increase yields for livestock and

farming purposes that reproductive cancers have become epidemic in this country.

Most of North America's dairy products come from cows that are pumped-up with

hormones so that they produce milk even when they are not pregnant or nursing a

calf. Milk, cheese, yogurt and other dairy products are a staple in the American

diet, while beef and dairy products are not found in the traditional Japanese

diet.

So here's the logic: Throughout their lives, Asian women have healthier balanced

hormone levels than Western-hemisphere women do. When entering menopause, Asian

women simply make the transition from low to lower. Hence, they have fewer

symptoms. American women have higher levels of " harmful " environmental estrogens

in their bodies, so when entering menopause, these levels drop drastically,

causing severe symptoms.